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SCIENCE. 



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minutes on tlie life and services of the late 

 Professor Peirce: 



" The Faculty of Arts and Sciences desire 

 to put on record their sense of the great loss 

 which they have sustained in the death of 

 Professor James Mills Peirce. 



" Born in Cambridge within sound of the 

 College hell, a member of the faculty of Har- 

 vard College at twenty, serving for nearly fifty 

 years, not as teacher merely, but successively 

 as secretary of the academic council, as dean 

 — and almost as father — of the graduate 

 school, and as dean of the faculty of arts and 

 sciences, he spent the whole of a long life in 

 and for the university. 



" He was an admirable teacher, steeped in 

 his subject, not buried in it, and always in 

 close sympathy with his students, to whom he 

 was ever a generous and inspiring friend. 

 Broad-minded and many sided, his scholarship 

 was of that wide, human kind which unites 

 learning with recognition of every accomplish- 

 ment of grace of life, with interest in every 

 intellectual problem, and with good will to 

 every earnest man. All his work was char- 

 acterized by thoroughness and finish, and by 

 a kind of fervid loyalty. He had a high and 

 large conception of academic freedom, and, in 

 age as in youth, he looked forward and not 

 back. Of a peculiarly lovable nature, courte- 

 ous and kindly, he was known to all who met 

 him for his friendly greeting, his earnest 

 speech, at once measured and impetuous, and 

 his scorn of everything narrow, or crooked, or 

 mean." 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS. 

 Notice has been received that Professor 

 Theodore W. Richards has been designated 

 by the German government as Harvard visit- 

 ing professor at the University of Berlin for 

 the academic year 1906-7. Professor Rich- 

 ard's term of service will probably fall in the 

 second semester. 



Dr. Thomas A. Jaggar, Jr., professor of 

 geology at the Massachusetts Institute of 

 Technology and assistant professor at Har- 

 vard University, sailed for Europe on April 

 12 to visit the scene of the present eruption 



of Vesuvius. His special object is to study 

 volcanic phenomena along certain lines of 

 observation which he followed at Mt. Pelee in 

 1902, and to make a collection of rocks, vol- 

 canic deposits and photographs. Professor 

 Jaggar has undertaken this expedition at the 

 request of Mr. Alexander Agassiz, and has 

 been granted six weeks' leave of absence for 

 the purpose. 



Dr. William H. Welch, professor of pathol- 

 ogy at the Johns Hopkins University, has been 

 elected an honorary member of the Gesell- 

 schaft der Aertze of Vienna. 



President William F. Slocum, of Colorado 

 College, has been elected a member of the 

 board of the Carnegie Foundation for the 

 Advancement of Teaching in succession to the 

 late President Harper. 



The title of emeritus professor of zoology 

 has been conferred by the University of Lon- 

 don on Professor E. Ray Lankester, director 

 of the British Museum of Natural History. 



The Paris Geographical Society has awarded 

 a gold medal to Major C. H. D. Ryder for his 

 geographical work in connection with the 

 Tibet Mission. 



We learn from The Harvard University 

 Gazette that the Societe Asiatique of Paris 

 recently elected Professor Charles Rockwell 

 Lanman, of Harvard, an honorary member. 

 The society was founded in 1821, and its 

 honorary list numbers twenty-nine. At the 

 same meeting, the like distinction was con- 

 ferred upon the assyriologists, Delitzsch of 

 Berlin and Pinches of the British Museum, 

 Rhys Davids, the historian of Buddhism, the 

 Sanskritist Pischel of Berlin, and the weU- 

 known Bible critic, Wellhausen. The Royal 

 Society of Sciences of Gottingen, Prussia, 

 founded 1751, has also elected Professor Lan- 

 man to membership. Four other Americans 

 now share the same honor: Mr. Alexander 

 Agassiz and Professor Gross, of Harvard, Pro- 

 fessor Simon Newcomb, of Washington, and 

 Professor Penfield, of Tale. 



Professor Raphael Meldola, F.R.S., pro- 

 fessor of chemistry at Finsbury Technical 

 College, has been made an Officier de I'Instruc- 



